Christopher Alan Jones Index Website auditsAudits Websites · Houston, TX

Index of work · 2023 to 2026

One person. The whole website.

I design, write, and build websites for real businesses. A fiber ISP with seventy pages, a baker with one. The job is the same either way: find the shape of the thing, then ship it.

Job 01 Webflow · 2024 · Live

Phonoscope Fiber

Seventy years of fiber under Houston. Four pages of website. That ratio needed fixing.

Phonoscope has run fiber under Houston since the 1950s. When I got there, the website was four HTML pages that looked every year of their age. I rebuilt the public face from a blank Webflow project, and it grew past seventy pages: business services, residential fiber, nine industries, support paths, a blog.

The design was the easy half. The real work was structure. A hospital IT director and a homeowner with a buffering problem land on the same domain, and both need their answer in about two clicks. I wrote the copy, drew the icons in Illustrator, handled the metadata, and set up analytics and the ad accounts on Google and Bing. The blog was mine too, until my role changed.

  • Information architecture
  • Every page of copy
  • Custom icons, drawn in Illustrator
  • SEO and metadata
  • Analytics and ad setup
  • Deploys and upkeep
Visit phonoscopefiber.com
Phonoscope Fiber homepage: dark Houston skyline with fiber light trails and the headline 'the network of possibilities'
Plate 01.A · HomepageDesktop
Dedicated Internet Access service page with a custom globe icon card over a server-room photo
01.B · Service page1 of 70+
Healthcare industry page with a custom medical-team illustration over a video hero
01.C · Industry pageHealthcare
Job 02 Webflow + custom code · 2023 · Live

RuggedEdge

An industrial AI startup with no logo, no site, and hardware bound for places phones are not allowed.

RuggedEdge makes edge computing devices for hazardous industrial environments, the kind of places where equipment needs certifications before it gets through the gate. They had serious hardware and almost nothing public. I created the logo, the style guide, and the brand assets, then built the whole site in Webflow, reaching for custom code where Webflow ran out of road.

Certification language has to be exact in this world, so the copy stayed close to the engineers. EdgeOne and EdgeTwo needed pages that carry spec detail without losing a buyer. EdgeConnect needed the platform story told straight. I also built the team's AI demos along the way, but that is a different portfolio.

  • Logo and style guide
  • Brand assets
  • Full Webflow build
  • Custom code past Webflow's limits
  • Copy, SEO, analytics, ads
  • Deploys and upkeep
Visit ruggededge.ai
RuggedEdge homepage: industrial worker in a hard hat in the rain, headline 'Working at the RuggedEdge'
Plate 02.A · HomepageDesktop
Content cards pairing field photography with operational benefits
02.B · Story sectionsHomepage
EdgeConnect platform section with gradient icon cards explaining how it works
02.C · EdgeConnectProducts
Job 03 Next.js · Postgres · 2025 · Offline

Jobline

A job board for people the listings usually skip: returning citizens, people without stable housing, people with disabilities.

Jobline started as a side project for a nonprofit cause and became a working product. Next.js on Vercel, Postgres underneath, an AI assistant on top. Job seekers could filter listings by the things that actually decide whether a job is possible, fair-chance hiring and night shifts among them.

The site is not online at the moment, but the build earns its place here. Jobs, resources, and resumes ran as separate boards on the Postgres backend, employers got their own pages behind real authentication, and the interface stayed simple enough for a stressed person to use. Idea to deployed product, one pair of hands.

  • Product concept
  • Interface design
  • Next.js build, Postgres backend
  • Jobs, resources, and resume boards
  • Employer accounts and auth
  • AI integration
  • Copy, metadata, deployment
Not currently online
Jobline landing page: indigo hero reading 'Empowering Every Journey to Employment'
Plate 03.A · LandingDesktop
Jobs board with search, location and fair-chance filters, and listing cards
03.B · Jobs boardFilters and listings
Job 04 Next.js · Vercel · 2025 · Live

TapTapContact

Digital business cards for Cast Fireplaces. Tap the card, save the contact, done.

Cast Fireplaces is a Houston cast stone company that wanted contact sharing to work the way people actually behave: a QR code on a real card, a clean page on the phone, a contact file that saves in one tap. I built the first version in Webflow, then rebuilt it properly in Next.js on Vercel.

The whole system runs off one JSON file. Add an employee there and the page, the URL, and the downloadable contact card generate themselves. Nobody maintains a dozen near-identical pages by hand, which is the kind of problem I enjoy deleting. I designed the matching physical cards too, so print and screen agree.

  • Webflow v1, then Next.js rebuild
  • JSON-driven pages and URLs
  • Downloadable .vcf contact cards
  • Card page design
  • Physical QR business cards
See a live card
Elizabeth Higgins's digital business card with download contact and website buttons
Plate 04.A · A cardMobile
Featured products section of the card page showing Cast Fireplaces work
04.B · ProductsMobile
Job 05 Astro · Netlify · 2026 · Live

The Tea Cake Man

A Houston man bakes teacakes people drive across town for. He needed one good page.

Not every job is seventy pages. The Tea Cake Man sells homemade teacakes and cobblers around Houston, and what he needed was simple: a page that feels like the product, says what is on offer, and takes an order without friction. Astro on Netlify, photos of the actual teacakes, a form that goes straight to him.

I wrote the copy to sound like the man himself. Warm, brief, no food-blog throat clearing. This is the project I show people who ask whether I only do big corporate sites. The right size for this client was small, so I built small, and built it well.

  • One-page design
  • Astro build
  • All copy and images
  • Order form
  • Metadata, deploy, upkeep
Visit theteacakeman.com
The Tea Cake Man homepage: warm photo of teacakes with the headline 'Sweetness Good for the Soul'
Plate 05.A · HomepageDesktop
Order form on mobile: 'Ready for something sweet? Place Your Order'
05.B · Order formMobile

Margin note

Phonoscope is job 01 and this is job 05 on purpose. Same hands, same care, opposite scale. That range is the point.

How I work

Every project above, I designed, wrote, built, launched, and maintained myself. That includes the unglamorous parts: information architecture, SEO and metadata, analytics and ad accounts, deploys, the small updates nobody sees. Webflow when a client's team needs to edit their own content. Next.js or Astro when the job wants real code. AI sits in my workflow where it earns its place, and I check everything it touches.

If your website is a pile of old decisions, that is normal. Bring it anyway. I am comfortable with messy starting points; four of these five began as one.

The person

Chris looking over the top of his laptop, in a burnt orange shirt against a warm sunlit wall
Chris, behind the buildHouston, TX

I'm Chris. Houston, Texas. The five jobs above are real and so are the businesses, which means I have written fiber-optic service pages and teacake descriptions in the same working week. Both got my full attention.

Taking website work · 2026

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